Nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation in pulsed high magnetic fields

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Feb 26;104(8):087601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.087601. Epub 2010 Feb 24.

Abstract

We report the demonstration of nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation from 57Fe in ferromagnetic alpha iron in pulsed high magnetic fields up to 30 T. The observed magnetic hyperfine field follows the calculated high field bulk magnetization within 1%, establishing the technique as a precise tool for the study of magnetic solids in very high magnetic fields. To perform these experiments in pulsed fields, we have developed a detection scheme for fully time resolved nuclear forward scattering applicable to other pump probe experiments.